Posted on March 3, 2009 - by Mark Zonda

Death (and Hope)

Being in love with music and founding yourself in the position of digging some reviews, makes you waste a lot of precious time and dosen’t pay you at all (au contraire… it usually involve you paying money for it), but it gives you a lot of gratifications (what a big deal!). One of that is talking to artist directly, getting to know your heroes and being one of the first persons hearing new material from the bands you love. That’s the case of the new “Stars In Coma” EP, called “Death and  Hope”. Let’s have a listen, shall we?

Track one: “Death and Hope”. Forget ’bout the dark “Diamondogesque” atmosphere that the title shall evoche. Just few seconds and rather being on the pale punk era in the seventish Albion it’s suddently “Yellow Magic Orchestra” having a parade on the streets of Shibuya. And that’s a very intriguing twist of the cheap boring indie plot: finally someone from the scene trying to brake the rules and find new directions (and it’s not so strange “Stars in Coma” will tour Brasil on May, after all). The intro leads the way to an etereal melodic line, that reminds me (with pleausure) to a revised Zombies song on a Brian Wilson sauce. If only it had choirs!

“The Fantasy Youth Club” is a great catchy title for a song, and it gets delicious since the first seconds after you had pushed “Play”. It could be a great late Kinks song stolen by Soko.

“Save”? Third track sais so. And I get the impression of hearing Paul playing randomly with synths for his own (and my) pleausure on “McCartney II”. “Light In Zenith” is pure “Stars in Coma”, but a little “Soda Fountain Raggggie” too, expecially when André Brorsson goes on “ah-ah-ah”!

“C’mon Drifter” just a lovely winter ballad, to preserve for the best dawns of last cold days of the year.

“Death and Hope” is pubblished by the brasilian “Bolinha Records“. And I can’t wait to buy it on André Italian tour!

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